David Mabberley

• Macquarie University

The nomenclatural significance of Thomas Martyn’s monumental revision (and expansion) of Philip Miller’s Gardeners dictionary, namely Martyn’s puzzlingly neglected The gardener’s and botanist’s dictionary ([1795–]1807), is assessed with particular reference to New World botany. The publication dates of its constituent parts are discussed; a key res...

The biology of citrus is briefly reviewed, pointing up how surprisingly little is known of pollination and dispersal in wild species. The classification of the citron, Citrus medica, in modern science is set out in a historical context: its taxonomic relationships in the light of the evolution of the genus Citrus and the citron's role in the origin...

Two early validly published names for Assam tea (Camellia sinensis var. assamica “(Choisy) Kitam.)”) are identified: Thea assamica Royle ex Hook. 1847 and T. assamica Hort. Belg. ex Bosse 1854; an amended synonymy and a neotypification (with D.‐W. Zhao) for the name of Assam tea, C. sinensis var. assamica (Hook.) Steenis, are provided. The three ed...

Humanity faces the challenge of conserving the attributes of biodiversity that may be essential to secure human wellbeing. Among all the organisms that are beneficial to humans, plants stand out as the most important providers of natural resources. Therefore, identifying plant uses is critical to preserve the beneficial potential of biodiversity an...

To understand better the mechanisms underlying the disjunct distribution of plants between Taiwan and Himalaya‐southwestern China, the genus Prinsepia (Rosaceae) was examined using phylogenetic and dating approaches based on molecular evidence. Prinsepia comprises four allopatric species with distributions in four subregions of China, i.e., P. scan...

Background: Orange jasmine has a complex nomenclatural history and is now known as Murraya paniculata (L.) Jack. Our interest in this common ornamental stemmed from the need to resolve its identity and the identities of closely related taxa as hosts of the pathogen 'Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus' and its vector Diaphorina citri. Understanding...

Acacia × mangiiformis Maslin & L.A.J.Thomson, hybrida nova, is described. Its parents are Acacia auriculiformis A.Cunn. ex Benth. and A. mangium Willd., two well-known and important plantation species in Asia and elsewhere. Acacia × mangiiformis arose naturally in the Western Province of Papua New Guinea and in recent decades has become widely cult...

Investigation of the provenance of a herbarium gathering of Kissenia arabica (Loasaceae) at the Natural History Museum, London, reveals it to be part of the likely earliest extant herbarium collection from the south Arabian coast. Gathered in 1781–1782, the collection was possibly made by the colourful John Oswald (c. 1760–1793).

A consideration of the naming of Hibiscus patersonius (Malvaceae) and similar names leads to the conclusion that such adjectival forms in specific epithets are in accordance with Classical Latin and that their “correction” to other adjectival forms or the genitive form of nouns is disruptive in botanical Latin. © 2018, International Association for...

The new combinations Acuston perenne (Mill.) Mabb. & Al-Shehbaz and A. perenne subsp. obovatum (Boiss. & Kotschy) Mabb.& Al-Shehbaz are proposed. The nomenclatural history, images of relevant types, and detailed descriptions of Acuston Raf. and A. perenne are provided for the first time.

Cambridge Core - Natural Resource Management, Agriculture, Horticulture and forestry - Mabberley's Plant-book - by David J. Mabberley

Madagascar is described. Specimens of this species were annotated by René Capuron over 40 years ago as “Grewia hispidissima”, which he evidently believed represented a species new to science, but the name has not been validly published. Our taxonomic work on the genus in Madagascar, including a careful study of Capuron’s annotated specimens and a w...

The Special Committee on By-laws for the Nomenclature Section was established at the XVIII International Botanical Congress (IBC) in Melbourne in 2011, with the mandate to formalize the procedures by which changes to the Code are considered and voted upon by the Nomenclature Section, and to report to the XIX IBC in Shenzhen in 2017. With the wider...

The history of publication of the generic name Murraya (“Murraea”, Rutaceae) is set out in the context of the interactions between Linnaeus, J.G. König, N.L. Burman, and C. Kleijnhoff. It is concluded that M. exotica L. (and therefore Murraya J.Koenig) must be typified by a sterile sheet in Linnaeus’s herbarium and not by a neotype recently propose...

An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG) classification of the orders and families of angiosperms is presented. Several new orders are recognized: Boraginales, Dilleniales, Icacinales, Metteniusiales and Vahliales. This brings the total number of orders and families recognized in the APG system to 64 and 416, respectively. We propose two a...

The genus Citrus comprises c. 25 species distributed from north-east India and China to Australia and New Caledonia. Citrus fruits today make up the most significant component of fruit-growing in warm countries, and extracts from them provide not only a very large share of the juice industry but are also used in many consumer products. When the fir...

John Lindley's vehicle for very rapid publication was his “New Plants” column in the Gardeners' Chronicle. Six inexplicably overlooked names published there are listed and disposed of, necessitating an overdue new combination in Gongora and adjustments in other tropical American Orchidaceae (Aspidogyne, Barkeria), though one name in Aphelandra (Aca...

In 1856 John Lindley made the first description of the firecracker flower, Rhytidea bicolor (now known as Dichelostemma ida-maia), naming a William Lobb collection exhibited in London. This binomial, despite its obvious priority, was proposed to be relegated to synonymy in Taxon, and is discussed here further.

In the context of the elucidation of the ancestry of today's commercial citrus crops, a lectotype is here designated for Citrus cavaleriei H.Lév. ex Cavalerie (Rutaceae, subfam. Aurantioideae), a species found in China and India, and one of the putative parents of C. ×junos Siebold ex Tanaka, the yuzu.

The use of different and often outmoded systems for the arrangement of collections in botanic gardens and herbaria hampers international research because it makes finding the location of a specific genus and family unpredictable. Following a series of international workshops, intended to develop a set of widely accepted circumscriptions of vascular...

John Carne Bidwill was born in 1815 in England and died in Queensland in 1853. His short life is relevant to Australia's garden history, botany, the horticultural use of Australian plants in European gardens and the colonial history of Sydney, New Zealand, Wide Bay and Maryborough. He may have been the first to introduce plant breeding into Austral...

Thirty-five field drawings of Western Australian endemic plants made by Ferdinand Bauer, natural history artist on Flinders’sInvestigator voyage (1801–1803), are published for the first time. In this, and a subsequent paper, surviving drawings made at King George Sound and Lucky Bay December 1801 – January 1802 (the first Bauer made in Australia) a...

An explanation for the attribution to Joseph Banks of two species names, the only two (besides one genus name) so attributable to him alone, is provided: currently the species concerned are correctly referred to as Phaius tankervilleae (Banks) Blume (Orchidaceae) and Strelitzia reginae Banks (Strelitziaceae).

Many of the skills and resources associated with botanic gardens and arboreta, including plant taxonomy, horticulture, and seed bank management, are fundamental to ecological restoration efforts, yet few of the world's botanic gardens are involved in the science or practice of restoration. Thus, we examined the potential role of botanic gardens in...

The genus Clerodendrum s.l. is polyphyletic. Although recent studies have resulted in C. subg. Cyclonema and C. sect. Konocalyx being removed to the resurrected genus Rotheca, and the unispecific genus Huxleya being sunk into Clerodendrum, it has been unclear whether Clerodendrum as currently circumscribed is monophyletic, particularly in relation...

The genus Clerodendrum s.l. is polyphyletic. Although recent studies have resulted in C. subg. Cyclonema and C. sect. Konocalyx being removed to the resurrected genus Rotheca, and the unispecific genus Huxleya being sunk into Clerodendrum, it has been unclear whether Clerodendrum as currently circumscribed is monophyletic, particularly in relation...

During visits in May 2006 and February 2007 to Ogaden (or the Somali National Regional State of Ethiopia, as it is formally called), the botanist Mats Thulin and his team encountered a tree previously unknown to science on limestone hills southeast of the town Kebri Dehar. The researchers soon found that it dominates the vegetation over large areas...

The breeding of new, high-quality citrus cultivars depends on dependable information about the relationships of taxa within the tribe Citreae; therefore, it is important to have a well-supported phylogeny of the relationships between species not only to advance breeding strategies, but also to advance conservation strategies for the wild taxa. The...

Summary The recent decoding of a painting-by-numbers technique used in the Pacific over two hundred years ago has allowed the first complete portrayal in colour of a long-extinct island endemic, Solanum bauerianum Endl., restricted to Norfolk and Lord Howe Islands.

In the first edition of Baron Dumont de Courset's "Le Botaniste Cultivateur", names were validly published for the Port Jackson Fig and the "Botany Bay oat" of the Sydney area, that of the fig at least antedating that in current use: it is proposed for rejection elsewhere in this issue (Mabberley & Dixon, 2004), though the identity of the "oat" is...

The introduction to Europe of species of Agathis, major timber trees (kauris) grown there as greenhouse ornamentals, is discussed. The importance of Sir Joseph Banks, Kew and the [Royal] Botanic Gardens Sydney is explained and the paramount historical significance of the kauris still growing in Sydney is stressed.

The work of John Bidwill, first director of the Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney, is discussed with particular reference to his connections with William and Joseph Hooker, notably his early collecting in New Zealand and the living plants sent to and from Kew – especially Araucaria bidwillii– and his pioneering hybridising of ornamental plants.

Mabberley, D.J. (Nationaal Herbarium Nederland, University of Leiden, The Netherlands, and National Herbarium of New South Wales, Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney, Mrs Macquaries Road, Sydney 2000, Australia) 2004. A key to Dysoxylum (Meliaceae) in Australia, with a description of a new species from Far North Queensland. Telopea 10(3): 725-729. A key t...

The original English version is attached, not the published French version. Eight subfamilies recognized, the `basal' ones comprising trees and shrubs of the tropics, subfam. VIII (Nepetoideae) comprising some four tribes, the bulk of the old Labiatae, the majority being herbs and small shrubs of temperate regions. Except for Plectranthus (Nepetoi...

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Mabberley, David J. (Nationaal Herbarium Nederland, University of Leiden, The Netherlands; and Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney, Mrs Macquaries Road, Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia) 2002. The Agathis brownii case (Araucariaceae). Telopea 9(4): 743–754. Examination of Annual Reports of the Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney and early horticultural and travel lit...

Mabberley, D.J. (Nationaal Herbarium Nederland, University of Leiden, The Netherlands, and Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney, Mrs Macquaries Road, Sydney, NSW, Australia 2000), Jarvis, C.E. (Department of Botany, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK), and Juniper, B.E. (Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, South P...

A further forty-four field drawings of western Australian endemic plants made by Ferdinand Bauer, natural history artist on Flinders’sInvestigator voyage (1801–1803), are published in Part II as a subsequent paper to Part I. In this and the previous paper, surviving drawings made at King George Sound and Lucky Bay (December 1801–January 1802) are i...

Mabberley, D.J. (National Herbarium of the Netherlands, University of Leiden, The Netherlands, and Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia) 1999. Vitis × alexanderi Prince ex Jacques (Vitaceae), the first 'American Hybrid' grapes. Telopea 8(3): 377-379. The first 'American Hybrid' grapes (Vitis vinifera L. × V. labrusca L.) are to be refe...

John Corner was one of the most colourful, and controversial, biologists of the century. Edred John Henry Corner was born on 12 January 1906 at 37 Harley Street, London, W.1., son of Edred Moss Corner M.A., M.B., M.C., F.R.C.S. (d. 1950), surgeon and surgical author, and his wife Henrietta, nëe Henderson (d. 1966).

Clerodendrum L. s.l. subg. Cyclonema (Hochstetter) Guerke plus Clerodendrum sect. Konocalyx Verdcourt (subg. Clerodendrum pro parte) are recognized as a distinct genus, for which the earliest name is Rotheca Rafinesque. The new combinations Rotheca Rafinesque. The new combinations Rotheca commiphoroides (Verdcourt) Steane and Mabberley, Rotheca mak...

Mabberley, David J.(Rijksherbarium, University of Leiden, Netherlands, and Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney, Mrs Macquaries Road, Sydney NSW 2000) 1999. Silene banksia (Caryophyllaceae), an ancient garden plant. Telopea 8(2): 249–256. The history of the group of garden hybrids, synthesized in Europe in the 1850s and known today as Lychnis × haageana, i...

A synopsis of the genus Oxera (Labiatae), including keys and notes on ecology and distribution is given. The genus comprises twenty-one species and four subspecies native to New Caledonia and Vanuatu. Three new species are described: Oxera coronata de Kok from the north, O. inodora de Kok from the south of New Caledonia respectively, and O. vanuatu...

The taxonomic history of the genus Oxera (Labiatae) is discussed, and a key to it and its near allies is presented. A new informal subdivision of Oxera is proposed.

A revision of the genus Faradaya F. Muell. (Labiatae) is presented with taxonomic history, keys, full descriptions, distribution maps and ecological and ethnobotanical notes. Only three species are recognised: F. amicorum (Seem.) Seem., F. lehuntei (Horne ex Baker) A.C. Smith and F. splendida F. Muell.; fifteen names are put into synonymy for the f...

Thirty-three species of Clerodendrum s.l. and five outgroup genera were included in a sequence analysis of internal transcribed spacers of the nuclear ribosomal DNA. The results of the cladistic analysis were compared to and combined with cpDNA restriction site data from a previous study. All molecular data identified four major clades within Clero...

This is the first scholarly treatise that tells the remarkable story behind the making of the Flora Graeca, the monumental collection of illustrations and descriptions of plants in Greece, Cyprus and Turkey. First described by Dioskorides in the sixth century, the flora and fauna of the Levant was neglected until the gentlemen botanists-naturalists...

This is the first scholarly treatise that tells the remarkable story behind the making of the Flora Graeca, the monumental collection of illustrations and descriptions of plants in Greece, Cyprus and Turkey. First described by Dioskorides in the sixth century, the flora and fauna of the Levant was neglected until the gentlemen botanists-naturalists...

This is the first scholarly treatise that tells the remarkable story behind the making of the Flora Graeca, the monumental collection of illustrations and descriptions of plants in Greece, Cyprus and Turkey. First described by Dioskorides in the sixth century, the flora and fauna of the Levant was neglected until the gentlemen botanists-naturalists...

This is the first scholarly treatise that tells the remarkable story behind the making of the Flora Graeca, the monumental collection of illustrations and descriptions of plants in Greece, Cyprus and Turkey. First described by Dioskorides in the sixth century, the flora and fauna of the Levant was neglected until the gentlemen botanists-naturalists...

This is the first scholarly treatise that tells the remarkable story behind the making of the Flora Graeca, the monumental collection of illustrations and descriptions of plants in Greece, Cyprus and Turkey. First described by Dioskorides in the sixth century, the flora and fauna of the Levant was neglected until the gentlemen botanists-naturalists...

This is the first scholarly treatise that tells the remarkable story behind the making of the Flora Graeca, the monumental collection of illustrations and descriptions of plants in Greece, Cyprus and Turkey. First described by Dioskorides in the sixth century, the flora and fauna of the Levant was neglected until the gentlemen botanists-naturalists...

This is the first scholarly treatise that tells the remarkable story behind the making of the Flora Graeca, the monumental collection of illustrations and descriptions of plants in Greece, Cyprus and Turkey. First described by Dioskorides in the sixth century, the flora and fauna of the Levant was neglected until the gentlemen botanists-naturalists...

This is the first scholarly treatise that tells the remarkable story behind the making of the Flora Graeca, the monumental collection of illustrations and descriptions of plants in Greece, Cyprus and Turkey. First described by Dioskorides in the sixth century, the flora and fauna of the Levant was neglected until the gentlemen botanists-naturalists...

This is the first scholarly treatise that tells the remarkable story behind the making of the Flora Graeca, the monumental collection of illustrations and descriptions of plants in Greece, Cyprus and Turkey. First described by Dioskorides in the sixth century, the flora and fauna of the Levant was neglected until the gentlemen botanists-naturalists...

This is the first scholarly treatise that tells the remarkable story behind the making of the Flora Graeca, the monumental collection of illustrations and descriptions of plants in Greece, Cyprus and Turkey. First described by Dioskorides in the sixth century, the flora and fauna of the Levant was neglected until the gentlemen botanists-naturalists...

This is the first scholarly treatise that tells the remarkable story behind the making of the Flora Graeca, the monumental collection of illustrations and descriptions of plants in Greece, Cyprus and Turkey. First described by Dioskorides in the sixth century, the flora and fauna of the Levant was neglected until the gentlemen botanists-naturalists...

This is the first scholarly treatise that tells the remarkable story behind the making of the Flora Graeca, the monumental collection of illustrations and descriptions of plants in Greece, Cyprus and Turkey. First described by Dioskorides in the sixth century, the flora and fauna of the Levant was neglected until the gentlemen botanists-naturalists...

This is the first scholarly treatise that tells the remarkable story behind the making of the Flora Graeca, the monumental collection of illustrations and descriptions of plants in Greece, Cyprus and Turkey. First described by Dioskorides in the sixth century, the flora and fauna of the Levant was neglected until the gentlemen botanists-naturalists...

This is the first scholarly treatise that tells the remarkable story behind the making of the Flora Graeca, the monumental collection of illustrations and descriptions of plants in Greece, Cyprus and Turkey. First described by Dioskorides in the sixth century, the flora and fauna of the Levant was neglected until the gentlemen botanists-naturalists...

This is the first scholarly treatise that tells the remarkable story behind the making of the Flora Graeca, the monumental collection of illustrations and descriptions of plants in Greece, Cyprus and Turkey. First described by Dioskorides in the sixth century, the flora and fauna of the Levant was neglected until the gentlemen botanists-naturalists...

This is the first scholarly treatise that tells the remarkable story behind the making of the Flora Graeca, the monumental collection of illustrations and descriptions of plants in Greece, Cyprus and Turkey. First described by Dioskorides in the sixth century, the flora and fauna of the Levant was neglected until the gentlemen botanists-naturalists...

This is the first scholarly treatise that tells the remarkable story behind the making of the Flora Graeca, the monumental collection of illustrations and descriptions of plants in Greece, Cyprus and Turkey. First described by Dioskorides in the sixth century, the flora and fauna of the Levant was neglected until the gentlemen botanists-naturalists...

This is the first scholarly treatise that tells the remarkable story behind the making of the Flora Graeca, the monumental collection of illustrations and descriptions of plants in Greece, Cyprus and Turkey. First described by Dioskorides in the sixth century, the flora and fauna of the Levant was neglected until the gentlemen botanists-naturalists...

This is the first scholarly treatise that tells the remarkable story behind the making of the Flora Graeca, the monumental collection of illustrations and descriptions of plants in Greece, Cyprus and Turkey. First described by Dioskorides in the sixth century, the flora and fauna of the Levant was neglected until the gentlemen botanists-naturalists...

This is the first scholarly treatise that tells the remarkable story behind the making of the Flora Graeca, the monumental collection of illustrations and descriptions of plants in Greece, Cyprus and Turkey. First described by Dioskorides in the sixth century, the flora and fauna of the Levant was neglected until the gentlemen botanists-naturalists...

This is the first scholarly treatise that tells the remarkable story behind the making of the Flora Graeca, the monumental collection of illustrations and descriptions of plants in Greece, Cyprus and Turkey. First described by Dioskorides in the sixth century, the flora and fauna of the Levant was neglected until the gentlemen botanists-naturalists...

This is the first scholarly treatise that tells the remarkable story behind the making of the Flora Graeca, the monumental collection of illustrations and descriptions of plants in Greece, Cyprus and Turkey. First described by Dioskorides in the sixth century, the flora and fauna of the Levant was neglected until the gentlemen botanists-naturalists...

This is the first scholarly treatise that tells the remarkable story behind the making of the Flora Graeca, the monumental collection of illustrations and descriptions of plants in Greece, Cyprus and Turkey. First described by Dioskorides in the sixth century, the flora and fauna of the Levant was neglected until the gentlemen botanists-naturalists...

This is the first scholarly treatise that tells the remarkable story behind the making of the Flora Graeca, the monumental collection of illustrations and descriptions of plants in Greece, Cyprus and Turkey. First described by Dioskorides in the sixth century, the flora and fauna of the Levant was neglected until the gentlemen botanists-naturalists...

This is the first scholarly treatise that tells the remarkable story behind the making of the Flora Graeca, the monumental collection of illustrations and descriptions of plants in Greece, Cyprus and Turkey. First described by Dioskorides in the sixth century, the flora and fauna of the Levant was neglected until the gentlemen botanists-naturalists...

This is the first scholarly treatise that tells the remarkable story behind the making of the Flora Graeca, the monumental collection of illustrations and descriptions of plants in Greece, Cyprus and Turkey. First described by Dioskorides in the sixth century, the flora and fauna of the Levant was neglected until the gentlemen botanists-naturalists...